Okay the black flashes happened today but I just kept playing. When tabbing back into the game at one point, my screen stayed black but my mouse was visible yet really sluggish. I ended up just hitting the reset button since it wasn't improving. I'm willing to try some different drivers if you guys know which ones are definitely stable. The drivers I'm currently using is 320.49. Or should I just try and play some sc2 without my GPU and just use the integrated option to see if the problems continue?

mav451

United States1596 Posts

July 22 2013 05:33 GMT

#7184

^^I had to roll back to the 314.22's to get some stability with my 780. 320.49's were not usable for me at all.
Make sure you are ticking the box for 'clean installs.'

I haven't seen this kind of instability in a long time...frankly disappointed by nVidia's recent efforts. I won't touch the 326.xx either b/c of the problems with 1440p panels.

Womwomwom

5930 Posts

July 22 2013 05:51 GMT

#7185

I don't think NV has fixed the 16-235 HDMI colour space problem. Its strange because it honestly is not a difficult problem to fix. And they still have problems running 4K monitors within Windows (even though they say the most recent drivers fixes this issue).

Capped

United Kingdom7236 Posts

July 22 2013 17:31 GMT

#7186

If i overclocked my i5-2500k, would my integrated GFX get a performance boost as well?

Im not looking for better graphics, i mean better FPS.

Trying to think if it might be worth the effort before i replace my borked 560ti

Rannasha

Netherlands2398 Posts

July 22 2013 17:58 GMT

#7187

On July 23 2013 02:31 Capped wrote:
If i overclocked my i5-2500k, would my integrated GFX get a performance boost as well?

Im not looking for better graphics, i mean better FPS.

Trying to think if it might be worth the effort before i replace my borked 560ti

Overclocking the CPU is not going to affect the performance of the integrated graphics chip.

However, SC2 is far more dependent on CPU than GPU for FPS in situations where FPS may drop down (mostly late-game battles), so overclocking the CPU is definitely worth it for SC2, regardless of what graphics chip you use.

Myrmidon

United States9452 Posts

July 22 2013 18:03 GMT

#7188

You can overclock the integrated graphics portion, the HD 3000, as well. There are separate controls for that. If you're trying to run SC2 off of that, that would help.

As far as I remember, though, people haven't been able to get very large overclocks on that IGP.

Cyro

United Kingdom20335 Posts

July 22 2013 21:09 GMT

#7189

On July 22 2013 14:51 Womwomwom wrote:
I don't think NV has fixed the 16-235 HDMI colour space problem. Its strange because it honestly is not a difficult problem to fix. And they still have problems running 4K monitors within Windows (even though they say the most recent drivers fixes this issue).

There's an issue with HDMI? By default they use 16-235 for everything, but you can flick that over in the driver. I think it's a shame that everybody who was not driven crazy by washed out colors for long enough to figure out or poke enough people to see what it was has to live with streams and decoded videos that look terrible

ieatkids5

United States4628 Posts

July 22 2013 22:12 GMT

#7190

really quick question that i couldn't find on google: why does windows 8 require such a large flash drive (32GB) to create a recovery disk? is it because it is making a a copy of all the other software and stuff on the computer at the time of creation? just wondering because i'm helping my cousin with his computer and he wants to make one, and i was just surprised when i saw that it needed a 32GB flash drive.

Jonoman92

United States9110 Posts

July 22 2013 22:25 GMT

#7191

I recently moved my house's modem/router unit to my room and I now have a wired connection. Should I disable my wireless from connecting to the network or does it not matter either way?

Womwomwom

5930 Posts

July 23 2013 03:50 GMT

#7192

On July 23 2013 06:09 Cyro wrote:

Show nested quote +

Oh so they did fix that. I think in the past the toggle didn't stick or something along those lines so you had to use a third party application to "force" it so to speak. Its really, really stupid anyway since everything has EDID these days.

Cyro

United Kingdom20335 Posts

July 23 2013 03:57 GMT

#7193

I'd never even heard of EDID, just thought it was ridiculous to not be able to see anything deeper than a soft grey. It showed up on some things (decoded videos, streams etc) but not others and i noticed it immediately but it took me like 6 months to fix it because i had no idea why it was like that

Capped

United Kingdom7236 Posts

July 23 2013 13:46 GMT

#7194

Thanks for the answers, i think i might benefit from overclocking the CPU a piece then, i dont play SC2 anymore (

) but i play RIFT and AFAIK most MMO's are CPU dependant right? Thats the only thing ive had FPS issues with really, LoL is so pathetic i get 60 and i dont really play much else.

I dont think i'll bother with OCing the iGPU, seems to much of a risk for little reward.

Any guides for a stable overclock for the i5-2500k then? Most of them can hit 4.3 without bothering themselves right?

Ropid

Germany3557 Posts

July 23 2013 14:11 GMT

#7195

On July 23 2013 22:46 Capped wrote:
Any guides for a stable overclock for the i5-2500k then? Most of them can hit 4.3 without bothering themselves right?

There are guides in the overclock.net forums. Go into the "Intel CPUs" area. They are in there somewhere. You might find something that's specific to your motherboard brand.

I remember the guy that wrote the guide using Gigabyte boards being very thorough but writing a wall of text. That guide answered every possible question if read closely. I think this is it: http://www.overclock.net/t/910467/the-ultimate-sandy-bridge-oc-guide-p67a-ud7-performance-review

The guide using ASRock is good if you just want to know what to do, comes with a .zip with programs you need, written easy to understand and follow, can recommend: http://www.overclock.net/t/1198504/complete-overclocking-guide-sandy-bridge-ivy-bridge-asrock-edition

Irre

United States646 Posts

July 23 2013 23:14 GMT

#7196

I just built a new PC with an asrock z87 extreme 4 motherboard, corsair carbide 400r case, and corsair power supply. I am having an issue with the power and turning the PC on.. If i dont have any of the pins connected to the LED panel on the motherboard ( the area with the pins for HDD LED, RESET SW, POWER SW etc) I can turn the computer on with a screwdriver by making contact. I can also press the power button on the motherboard to turn it on. Here are the symptoms

If i turn on the power switch on the PSU, my fans in case start spinning and going off..the case lights blink..but if i have the case wires connected to the motherboard the power button will not work.

I followed the manual diagram to connect everything.. i am not that experienced with building so I was hoping someone could help me diagnose and let me know if this is a hardware defect or something else is wrong.. thanks!

Infernal_dream

United States2359 Posts

July 23 2013 23:28 GMT

#7197

Sounds like the motherboard is shorting. Did you use standoffs when you put the mobo in? I would take the mobo completely off and check to see that you put standoffs in all the right places and dont have an extra on just contacting the motherboard.

Irre

United States646 Posts

July 24 2013 13:38 GMT

#7198

I think I fixed it.. I used extra screws that came with the case to better support the motherboard and they were either too tight or causing some sort of short. I removed them since they aren't really that needed and it seems to be solved. I guess as a follow up question..does anyone actually use the extra screws or do they only use the standoffs? I don't think I damaged the board from what I can tell.

Ropid

Germany3557 Posts

July 24 2013 14:22 GMT

#7199

On July 24 2013 22:38 Irre wrote:
I think I fixed it.. I used extra screws that came with the case to better support the motherboard and they were either too tight or causing some sort of short. I removed them since they aren't really that needed and it seems to be solved. I guess as a follow up question..does anyone actually use the extra screws or do they only use the standoffs? I don't think I damaged the board from what I can tell.

I used all mounting holes on the board. You need the stand offs for every position, and it has to fit with ATX vs. mATX board size, no extra stand offs pushing onto the bottom of the board where there is no hole. The case might come with washers for insulation of the screws, but you shouldn't use that nowadays. The board mounting holes have contact areas for the board to get grounded through the screws and the case and PSU casing all touching.

Goldfish

2230 Posts

July 24 2013 18:43 GMT

#7200

I'm playing a game and occasionally the screen will display blocky colors of all ranges (artifacts) and then "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered". Game crashes and firefox crashes too when that happens. No BSOD or computer freezes or anything though (driver just restarts after game crashes).

This never happened before, fresh reinstall of Windows 7 with new HDD (same computer otherwise).

The odd thing is, Firefox crashes when this happen, should that happen?

Though, I wouldn't be surprised if my video card is dying or something (it has had occasional problems before, but nothing like this though).

I wouldn't mind if Firefox was the problem (the only recent change in program is Firefox) means no replacement needed for graphic card (I will try playing the game without Firefox open sometime later to see if it still happens).

As for the drivers, I tried both the ones I had that worked before without any problems (and which I installed initially, 3.10 something nvidia) and the latest one (clean install).

My video card is a GTX 560. I guess after installing a new HDD and moving the computer case around, maybe something caused the video card to finally start dying (it had some problems before)